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I have not found much information about people using more than 12gb, 3x4gb kits on a bloodrage. So I will share my findings for anyone wondering, just tried for the hell of it and 8gb sticks work in the bloodrage. 24gb of RAM baby! and to all the haters who said that three ram slots was a bad move by foxconn. :D
Nice one!! :up: timings? V? how about a screenie please .... :D
Three slots is more then enough. Plus it had quite positive benefits on OC.
Good to know as I need a "bit" more RAM. Using latest BIOS or? :)
I used bios P11 for testing. I know they added support for 4gb dimms, but didn't know if 8gb dimms would work. I couldn't find anyone who has used more than 4gb on the net. I had some 8gb sticks to play with and figured id give them a shot. It worked to my surprise. Im in the process of upgrading my X58 setup. I just got a vanilla 6 core 980 and wanted to beef up my ram too.
I use my PC as a workstation for Adobe CS and Corel and 6gb is just not enough. I have hit my limit many times before. I like to have all my programs running across 3 1200p dells, and have about 20 tabbed websites running.
Didnt have a lot of time to play with them though, timings are a bit week on 8gb sticks. My sticks are 3x8 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 1.5v PNY.
Still trying to decide if i should use the 24gb kit or use a 12gb kit at better timings. Someone will trade me for 3x4 Dom GT's 2000mz 9-10-9-27.
I will take some screens when I get a chance to play around more.
And they run actually at 1600mhz 9-9-9-24?Quote:
Originally Posted by To(V)bo Co(V)bo
More memory is always better solution. Better timings with 12GB kit will lead to "placebo effect" :).Quote:
Originally Posted by To(V)bo Co(V)bo
Update....
Finally got around to playing with the ram. Seems I can't get the third stick to post. Works with 2 sticks no problem. I tested all sticks, none are dead.
Tried every setting I could think of. It's odd that 2 sticks work, but 3 sticks don't.
Ram runs at timings, even had them cranked up to 1920mhz at cas 9. High tRFC though
Should I get a 3x4gb set or just run the 2x8gb. That empty slot is pissing me off.
And all three sticks work? I mean, isnt one of them sorta faulty?
Otherwise, VTT needs to be set in max 0,5V difference from vDIMM (I think there is no minimum, usually everything between 0.3 to 0.5V is fine). Thing is that VTT actually needs to be juiced up to make sticks work, with low they can sometimes even fail to post.
Btw. how do these low-volt sticks work with decent voltage bump, does it help OC or just kills memory?
I need (really need) more memory..
So either I will change platform (sigh, that will be expensive), or keep what I have and upgrade memory.. but its a bit hard to find 8GB sticks with native 1.65V.
You don't have to run ram with 1.65v on 1366. At the time bloodrage came out 1.65 was the lowest they could get. DDR3 before nehalem was around 1.9v. Right now you can even get sticks with 1.35v.
My sticks run at 1.5v stock, but i am running them at 1.6v to give them some extra juice. All the sticks work just fine. Just cant get all 3 together to post. 2 sticks will post fine at 16gb. I tried all sorts of configurations.
Seems like it is a hard bios limit. They released a bios to support 4gb dimms. Apparently before they released that bios, 4gb sticks worked, but only with 2 installed. Just like my scenario. Was really hoping to get more.
Intel claims that 24gb is max, but it isn't. Many people have got 48gb running in some boards, mostly asus. Xeon's can run 1tb of ram believe it or not. I might get a asus board to run all 3 sticks.